Identifier: birdlore15noas (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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l authors claimed that the Pigeons came northin the spring by a route different from that of their return in the fall. Wildpigeons, in their passage northward, begin to appear in New England, endof February and beginning of March, but not in large numbers, because theytravel more inland for the benefit of last autumn berries of several sorts inthe wilderness; they return in their passage southward, in larger quantities,end of August; . . . they at that season keep toward the plantations for thebenefit of their harvest (Douglass, 1755). Two descriptions of their flights from eyewitnesses will suffice: A gentle-man of the town of Niagara assured me (Weld, 1795) that once, as he was (85) 86 Bird-Lore embarking there on board ship for Toronto, a flight of them was observedcoming from that quarter; that, as he sailed over Lake Ontario to Toronto,forty miles distant from Niagara, pigeons were seen flying overhead thewhole way, in a contrary direction to that in which the ship proceeded; and
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PASSENGER PIGEON, PARENT BIRD The nearby presence of this birds offspring induces an alert, defiant pose when confronted by the camera. that, on arriving at the place of his destination, the birds were still observedcoming down from the north in as large bodies as had been noticed at any onetime during the whole voyage; supposing, therefore, that the pigeons movedno faster than the vessel, the flight, according to this gentlemans account, The Passenger Pigeon 87 must at least have extended eighty miles. ... It is not oftener than oncein seven or eight years, perhaps, that such large flocks of these birds are seenin the country. The years in which they appear are denominated pigeonyears. In 1844, Featherstonhaugh, in an excursion through the slave states,found that, A new and very interesting spectacle presented itself, in theincredible quantitiesof wild pigeons thatAvere abroad; flocks ofthem many miles longcame across the coun-try, one flight suc-ceeding to another, ob-scuring the da

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